Northern APC stakeholders protest and reject Lalong as campaign CEO

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calling Lalong's appointment a slap in the face to northern Christians

ask Buhari to clear his role on Muslim-Muslim ticket

Thousands of All Progressives Congress (APC) stakeholders and supporters in the six north-central states, including the Federal Capital Territory, staged a peaceful protest in Abuja on Tuesday against the appointment of the governor of Plateau State, Simon Lalong, as Managing Director of the APC Presidential Campaign Council.

Protesters under the aegis of APC North Center stakeholders also marched to the Presidential Villa to submit a letter of protest to the President against the Muslim-Muslim ticket adopted by the party.

Protesters held placards with inscriptions; “On the Christian vice-presidential candidate from the center-north, we stand”, Lalong is alone! ‘Dear Asiwaju, keep your DG. Give us a Christian VP."

Describing Lalong's appointment as the party's campaign CEO as an insult to the north-central region, stakeholders said they would only accept the post of vice president.

Speaking at the protest, the leader of the group, Dauda Yakubu, said various clues at play so far within the party do not suggest that Christians in northern Nigeria are considered in the party business plan.

He recalled that the party disregarded the advice of relevant stakeholders in nominating a northern Muslim as the party's vice-presidential candidate.

According to him, party stakeholders, especially Christians in the north, have felt humiliated by the actions of the party leadership in recent times, which he says do not demonstrate ethnic and religious inclusion.

He urged President Muhammadu Buhari to clear his role and make his position known on the party's same-faith ticket.

Yakubu said, "We believe that the appointment of Governor Simon Bako Lalong as Chief Executive...